The "Free Exercise" Clause of the United States Constitution The Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution of the United States of America states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." ... This raises an interesting question: when in history should the Federal Government step in and protect the rights of others who may not share their religious views? ...

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Constitution states as follows: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." ... How do these judges make the conclusion that there is a right to privacy guaranteed in the constitution, when it is not specifically written? ... Throughout the brief history of the Supreme Court, hundreds of cases have been hel...

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All the governments in Israel's history have been made up of several parties because no individual party has received enough Knesset seats to form a government by itself. ... Unlike our Bill of Rights their basic laws are not written in a constitution. ... Eventually all the basic laws will be brought together to form a constitution for Israel ...

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Madison resulted in a landmark decision in the history of the Supreme Court. The court's ruling established the power of judicial review, declared that the Constitution was the supreme law of the land, and that the Supreme Court has the final authority on interpreting the Constitution (Urofsky, par. 4). ... It also made the Constitution the supreme law of the land. ... To support his claim, Marshall focused on the Supremacy Clause of Article VI of the Constitution which declares that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Only statutes and laws made in pursuit of upholding ...

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Debate arises because the Constitution is silent on the exact time at which the appointment is considered complete. ... The answer is logically yes although there are no specific words in the Constitution to support such an answer. ... Marshall further maintains that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. ... There is nothing in the Constitution that assigns the duty of review solely to the judicial department. ... The Supreme Court is the only branch of government that could act to strengthen the national government during the early history of the Constitution. ...

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The court, which is over two centuries old, has a deep history which has helped to shape it into the grand institution that it has become. ... Marshall, in deciding the case had to weigh the constitution against law made by congress. ... His decision was made as to weigh the constitution more than the congress-made law. In doing this he made sure to protect the individual freedoms that are guaranteed by the constitution by making the precedent that the constitution was always more powerful than the legislative made law. ... The Supreme Court is the "guardian of the Constitution" and the Consti...

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Many people are not familiar how Constitutions are interpreted to justify our current laws. ... The Eighth Amendment is in the Constitution that was modified shortly after American Revolution. ... Then we need to understand why the framers of constitution consist this term in this Amendment. ... Therefore, I think although the framers of the Constitution wasn't intended to be against capital punishment, it doesn't mean capital punishment is automatically justified in the Constitution. There has always been movement going on which aim to abolish death penalty in the United Sta...

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How clear is it if the Pledge to Allegiance is about God or about the Nations principals and constitution? ... Those who took the time to read the decision can also have discovered that controversy about the Pledge has a long history, and that prohibiting school systems from coercing children to recite the Pledge is not some wacky new idea of a few far out California justices or of any other justices around the nation. In fact, compelling students to recite the Pledge was held to be a violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution in 1943, eleven years prior to the act of Congress that i...

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The question of whether or not any one person has the capacity, legally or otherwise to take one's own life is one of the most debated and fundamentally thought provoking in society's history. ... In either case the end result will be the same and since one is protected under the Constitution the other, physician-assisted suicide should be as well. ... I believe that the right to end one's own life is a personal, private right that is covered by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution. ... Physician-assisted suicide should be protected under the Constitution of the ...

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Writing in agreement to this argument except in dissent of the courts final decision, Justices Rehnquist, White, and O"Conner recall Holmes" aphorism "a page of history is worth a volume of logic". ... For instance, Stevens reiterates that our history demonstrates that the ideas we fight for in protecting the national unity of our nation were worthy of cause, and then, equally worthy of protection from desecration is the symbol in which we carried throughout these battles. ... Agreeing with the majority opinion of the court Kennedy wrote a concurring opinion in which he stated that he believ...

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In Perez, the Supreme Court of California recognized that bans on interracial marriage violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the Federal Constitution. ... Sharp, the California Supreme Court entered history as an example of a court's willingness to stand up for justice in the case before it, without fear or favor. ... The United States has a long history of the existence of anti-miscegenation laws that forbid interracial marriage. ... Constitution, contains the right to be treated the same, legally, as others in the same situation. ... Constitution forbids states from denying any pers...

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The issues that were argued for Bakke's side was the schools quota violated the Fourteenth Amendment, the Privileges & Immunities portion of the California Constitution and Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. ... They also brought up past history discrimination and thought it could be a good way to resolve it. ...

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Our constitution provides multiple rights and restrictions to those facing trial. The right to confrontation outlined in the 6th Amendment of our constitution, states the following: to be confronted with the witnesses against him. ... The statement must be made from due stress, excitement or startling from the event at hand. 3) Then Existing Mental, Emotional, or Physical Condition, a statement of the speaker's then state of mind or body, such as intent, will, plan, motive etc. 4) Statements for Purposes of Medical Diagnosis or Treatment, a statement made for the purpose of medical treatm...

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Using the guidelines of the United States Constitution, Blackmun developed a systematic argumentation that inherently increases the justifications for the court's decision, on the basis of "medical and medical-legal history and what that history reveals about man's attitude toward the abortion procedure over the centuries" (403). ...

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Reconstruction was the period of U.S. history from 1865 through 1877, during which the states that had seceded during the Civil War were reorganized under federal control and later restored to the Union. ... After the Civil War, the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments were added to the Constitution. ... Because the railroad provided "separate but equal" facilities for blacks, the Court decided that the equal protection clause of the Constitution had not been violated. ...

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Roe vs. Wade influenced the country more than was expected. The question presented was does the Constitution cover a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy by abortion? The court held that a woman's right to an abortion fell within the right to privacy protected by the Fourteenth Ame...

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Encyclopedia Britannica states: " The Supreme Court is a final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States. ... U.S Constitution specifies rules and regulation which refer to judicial procedures at the federal level. ... It stems from local customs and history. ...

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Affirmative action is the most ambitious attempt to readdress the United States" long history of racial discrimination. ... I believe this is an important issue deeply rooted in the conscience of America and our responsibility to live up the ideals of our constitution. ...

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